[coreboot] [PATCH] Drop drivers/pci/onboard

[Myles Watson]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
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>> Myles Watson wrote:
>> > > > PCI onboard was only used for ROM images at fixed offsets in
>> > > > flash.  Now that we have CBFS, there is no use for it.
>>
>>  But what about the PCI device ids which are being taken out of the
>> device tree? Are they guaranteed to be discovered through automatic
>> scanning?
>>
> Yes.  If the couldn't be probed, they would have been disabled even though
> they were found in the tree.
>
> I wonder a little about the on_mainboard flag.  It's possible that some of
> these devices would have had that flag set if they didn't need to have a
> ROM.  I don't know of a good way to automatically figure out which devices
> that would apply to.
>
The rest of the story :)

The on_mainboard flag gets used to set subsystem IDs and
CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA_ONBOARD_AT_FIRST

Thanks,
Myles
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